It seems that everyone these days is chasing an unicorn known as a record deal. Let's just be honest, not a lot of musicians are getting signed and if they are most have to change their image or already have well developed fan based and personas. Labels are not interested in artist development any more because how many new or emerging artists have you seen or heard of, then oh they just landed a deal with so and so....only in about a years time find themselves back home or on the bar and tavern circuit. Record labels aren't going to sign or promote what they can't sell. Period! Music is a business and the people in it what to make money.
Now it was not always this way, because the Big 4 had to start off somewhere too. The thing is a lot of them started off being independent then over the decades transformed themselves into the machine you see today. Well, here we are on a new frontier of music and media.....the question is do you want to work for the Big 4 or become the 5th one?
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Indie vs. Major
It seems that everyone these days is chasing an unicorn known as a record deal. Let's just be honest, not a lot of musicians are getting signed and if they are most have to change their image or already have well developed fan based and personas. Labels are not interested in artist development any more because how many new or emerging artists have you seen or heard of, then oh they just landed a deal with so and so....only in about a years time find themselves back home or on the bar and tavern circuit. Record labels aren't going to sign or promote what they can't sell. Period! Music is a business and the people in it what to make money.
Now it was not always this way, because the Big 4 had to start off somewhere too. The thing is a lot of them started off being independent then over the decades transformed themselves into the machine you see today. Well, here we are on a new frontier of music and media.....the question is do you want to work for the Big 4 or become the 5th one?
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